EU commends the adopted by the Parliament of Moldova on 21 June Declaration on the situation in Transnistria. As reported on 24 June to IA REGNUM correspondent at the press service of the Moldovan legislature, the statement was made by Dirk Schubel, the Head of the EU Delegation in Chisinau, at the meeting with Igor Corman, the Chairman of the Parliament of Moldova.

The EU expects that the summit of "Eastern Partnership" in November in Vilnius, where the Association Agreement EU-Ukraine is planned to be signed, will be successful.

On 19 June 2013 the Central Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) has published information about the GDP per capita (GDPpercapita) and actual individual consumption per capita (ActualIndividualConsumptionpercapita) in the Member States of the European Union in 2012.

The most important partners of Latvia for economic cooperation in the coming years will be Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. Such data is based on the survey of CFOs enterprises conducted by the auditing firm Deloitte.

"Berlin and Brussels are struggling against the attempts of" Gazprom " for increasing its influence on the most important markets in Western Europe pursuing to get out of its own crisis in this way," - writes Markus Balser in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. According to Alexander Medvedev, Vice-President of "Gazprom", the company remains a "Cinderella", yet wished to be a princess.

Latvia is concerned about the situation around the Russian non-profit organizations that are subject to extensive background checks by Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation in connection with the law "On foreign agents", stated the Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs Edgars Rinkevich.

The Lithuanian State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (VATESI) issued on 28 May a permit for the state enterprise Ignalinos atominė elektrinė (Ignalina nuclear power plant) for starting industrial storage of low level radioactive contamination waste in a special repository that is built on the site of the closed Ignalina nuclear power plant, reported to IA REGNUM correspondents at the plant.

From 3 to 14 June the NATO military exercises SaberStrike 2013 will be held. About 500 armed foreign troops are expected. Then a pause, while in autumn a new exercise - SteadfastJazz - where nearly 600 soldiers and officers from outside Latvia are involved.

The Baltic countries have jeopardized the multi-billion dollar project of Russian nuclear scientists

The Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite attended the European Council meeting held in Brussels.

According to the representative of the Russian opposition Leonid Gozman, Russia may not like the Baltic States and be an uncomfortable neighbour for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, however is inoffensive for them, because it has finally accepted the fact of their independence.

It is easier to start business in Estonia than in Latvia and Lithuania, therefore more new firms are established in our country than in other Baltic States – refer to a new study SEB analysts and entrepreneurs.

President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso received in Brussels representatives of the Lithuanian Government and promised to help the country to pass on to Euro in 2015.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius and the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, signed in Brussels a joint plan on combating the illicit trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials, reported in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania.

This was stated by the Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevicius, speaking about the powers of negotiators with the Russian company "Gazprom".

For effective complex defence of Latvia, the establishment of a permanent division of the National Armed Forces has started in Latgale, reported the official website of the Ministry of Defence.

On 13 January a concert "Together to the victory" was held in Lithuania, where the audience decided to support Ukraine's defence and donated 110 thousand Euros.

Alexander Lukashenko on 9 January signed a decree № 8 "On the establishment of visa-free entry and exit of foreign nationals." The document establishes visa-free entry to Belarus for a period not exceeding 5 days at the entrance through the checkpoint "National Airport Minsk" for citizens of 80 countries, - reported the press service of the President of Belarus.